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VIA Nano Processor Preview

@ 2008/05/29

VIA made quite a splash early this year when they announced the Isaiah CPU architecture, which was developed at their Centaur design center. At the time of the announcement, we spoke with VIA's Centaur design center president, Glenn Henry, to get a deeper insight into what VIA had in store with Isaiah, but we weren't given many hard details regarding final clock speeds and specifications, performance, branding, or availability.

Comment from jmke @ 2008/05/30

I always like Ars view on technology, straight to the point and very useful info

thanks for the links!

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It's ironic that VIA and Intel each appear to have taken a page from the other when developing their new processors, but its a move that makes sense given each company's position in the market. Nano, meanwhile, is an exciting product in its own right. It's the first x86 processor not built by AMD or Intel that may be capable of taking on both companies within its target market space, and its capable of handling demanding multimedia tasks that put a significant load on its single core.

Comment from Shogun @ 2008/05/30

Additional reading material:

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Via...Nano,5503.html
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post...-the-nano.html
http://www.macmod.com/content/view/1419/243/
http://www.eweek.com/prestitial.php?...3DN%26tab%3Dwn

Comment from jmke @ 2008/05/29

Don't know for sure if it's competition for the Atom which has higher clocks at lower wattage packing more punch

Comment from Shogun @ 2008/05/29

Just two days after announcing it has released an open source model for a new UMPC platform based on its own CPUs and motherboards, Via announced a new Nano processor based on its "Isaiah" architecture.

Via Technologies' low-power x86 Nano processor will be offered alongside its existing, venerable C7 while directly competing with Intel's Atom. The Nano processor family boasts at least four times the performance of the C7, while staying within the same power range and remaining pin-compatible.

http://www.betanews.com/article/Via_...PUs/1212091459

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